EU Supplier & Invoice Check

Check a supplier before you pay its invoice. One row per invoice with a verdict (pass, review or hold), the reasons, and the official source of every part.

What it checks

• The supplier in official company registers: UK Companies House, Ireland CRO, France SIRENE/RNE, Norway, Finland, Czechia, Slovakia, Estonia, Poland, plus GLEIF worldwide. Active or dissolved, number, address, incorporation date.
• Sanctions and PEP on the company, its directors and owners (UK, France, Norway) and its parent companies (GLEIF), against the EU, UN, UK and US OFAC lists.
• VAT number in the EU VIES service, matched to the registered company name.
• IBAN: valid checksum and length, and whether the bank account is in the same country as the company. For Polish suppliers: whether the account is registered to that company on the Polish VAT whitelist (paying another account has tax consequences in Poland).
• Sender email: domain exists and receives mail, throwaway domains, look-alike typo domains, and a mismatch with the supplier's website.
• Dutch bankruptcy (Centraal Insolventieregister) when you add the KvK number.
• Peppol e-invoicing: whether the supplier is on Peppol and which documents it receives.

Input

A list of invoices as JSON. Each invoice: name (or id, a company number) and country, plus what is on the invoice: vat, iban, email; optional domain and kvk. Send at least iban or vat.

[
  { "id": "7740001454", "country": "PL", "vat": "PL7740001454", "iban": "PL62102010260000190206882106" },
  { "name": "Colruyt Group", "country": "BE", "vat": "BE0400378485" }
]

Verdicts

• pass: supplier found and active, payment details consistent, nothing flagged.
• review: something needs a human look before paying, for example an IBAN abroad, an account not on the Polish whitelist, a VAT number registered to another name, a new website or a sender email that does not match.
• hold: do not pay yet. A possible sanctions match on the company, a director, an owner or a parent company, or an invalid IBAN.

Limits

This checks the supplier and the invoice details against official records. It cannot confirm who holds a bank account: use your bank's payee name check (Verification of Payee) before the first payment. Sanctions results are possible matches for a human to confirm; this is a screening aid, not legal advice.

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For AI agents

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